{"id":3165,"date":"2013-04-17T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T18:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:50","slug":"turtles-in-fishnets-what-happens-to-accidentally-caught-turtles-why-does-it-matter-and-how-do-we-stop-it-from-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2013\/turtles-in-fishnets-what-happens-to-accidentally-caught-turtles-why-does-it-matter-and-how-do-we-stop-it-from-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtles in fishnets: What happens to accidentally caught turtles, why does it matter and how do we stop it from happening?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Turtles in fishnets: What happens to accidentally caught turtles, why does it matter and how do we stop it from happening?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Wednesday, March 27, 2013 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencecafe.carleton.ca\/talks\/13\/turtles-fishnets-what-happens-accidentally-caught-turtles-why-does-it-matter-and-how-do-we\">http:\/\/sciencecafe.carleton.ca\/talks\/13\/turtles-fishnets-what-happens-accidentally-caught-turtles-why-does-it-matter-and-how-do-we<\/a>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nicholas Cairns and Lauren Stoot<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Biology<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The capture of non-targeted species, or bycatch, is a major threat to aquatic biodiversity but is often overlooked in freshwater fisheries. This is a common side effect of commercial fishing and can affect a wide variety of animals from pike to platypus.&nbsp; Turtles are of particular concern as they are commonly found alongside commercially important fish but because of their need for air, turtles can drown.&nbsp; Juvenile turtles have naturally low survival and take many years to reach breeding age so populations rely on long-lived adults breeding many times to maintain themselves.&nbsp; In eastern Ontario there is a small-scale fishery which primarily targets sunfish but often accidentally collects adult turtles.&nbsp; Our presenters will address this multi-dimensional issue from the natural history of turtles, to the un-natural effects of bycatch and the concerns of managers and fishers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CnXDIclhv-U&amp;feature=youtu.be\" rel=\"lightvideo\">Watch Video Teaser<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, March 27, 2013 &#8211; http:\/\/sciencecafe.carleton.ca\/talks\/13\/turtles-fishnets-what-happens-accidentally-caught-turtles-why-does-it-matter-and-how-do-we&#8211; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nicholas Cairns and Lauren Stoot &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Biology The capture of non-targeted species, or bycatch, is a major threat to aquatic biodiversity but is often overlooked in freshwater fisheries. This is a common side effect of commercial fishing and can affect a wide variety of animals from pike to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}